General Chair
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Scientific Committee
Programme Committee Chairs
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Lluís Màrquez (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Area Chairs
Summarization and Generation:
Katja Filippova, Google
Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore
NLP related Machine Learning:
Charles Sutton, University of Edinburgh
Ivan Titov, Saarland University
Syntax and Parsing:
Xavier Carreras, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Kenji Sagae, University of Southern California
Discourse Dialogue and Pragmatics:
Kallirroi Georgila, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
Michael Strube, HITS gGmbH
Spoken Language Processing:
Pascale Fung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining:
Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Theresa Wilson, Johns Hopkins University
Information Extraction:
David McClosky, Stanford University
Sebastian Riedel, University of Massachusetts
Machine Translation:
Phil Blunsom, University of Oxford
Mikel L. Forcada, Universitat d’Alacant
Christof Monz, University of Amsterdam
Phonology Morphology Tagging Chunking and Segmentation:
Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh
Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore College
Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications:
Patrick Pantel, Microsoft Research
Hiroya Takamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Semantics:
Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam
Sebastian Padó, Universität Heidelberg
Information Retrieval and Question Answering:
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Julio Gonzalo, UNED
Language Resources:
Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University
Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam
Computational Psycholinguistics:
Afra Alishahi, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
John Hale, Cornell University
Workshop Committee chairs
Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Alessandro Moschitti (University of Trento, Italy)
Tutorials Committee chairs
Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Lieve Macken (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Student research workshop:
Chairs:
Pierre Lison (University of Oslo, Norway)
Mattias Nilsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Marta Recasens (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Faculty advisor:
Laurence Danlos
System Demonstrations Committee
Frédérique Segond (chair)
Publications Committee
Adrià de Gispert (University of Cambridge, UK)
Fabrice Lefèvre (University of Avignon, France)
Sponsorship Committee
Massimiliano Ciaramita (sponsorship chair)
Idan Szpektor (sponsorship co-chair)
Mentoring service
Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University,Germany)
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Local Organising Committee :
Marc El-Beze (Chair), (University of Avignon, France)
Frederic Bechet (Publicity chair), (University Aix-Marseille 2, France)
Iria Da Cunha (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
Yann Fernandez, (University of Avignon, France)
Stéphane Huet (Exhibits local chair), (University of Avignon, France)
Tania Jimenez, (University of Avignon, France)
Fabrice Lefevre, (University of Avignon, France)
Christophe Levy (University of Avignon, France)
Georges Linares, (University of Avignon, France)
Simone Mouzac, (University of Avignon, France)
Eric SanJuan (Sponsorship local chair), (University of Avignon, France)
David Tourniaire (University of Avignon, France)
